Funeral Condolences Quotes:

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Together Again, Our Condolences, My Condolences

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Hands, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Sympathy

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

A human life is a story told by God.

- Hans Christian Andersen

topic: Sympathy, Stories, Life Is, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Death

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Sympathy, Flower, Heart, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

- Thomas Love Peacock

topic: Sympathy, Dark, Tears, My Condolences, Sympathy For Loss

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

- John Henry Newman

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Long, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Sympathy, Children, Real, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Sympathy

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

- Rossiter W. Raymond

source: Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

topic: Sympathy, Death, Military, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

topic: Strength, Time, Flower, Inspirational Bereavement, Our Condolences

He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Angel, Footprint, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

- George S. Patton

source: Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

topic: Death, Wisdom, Memorial Day, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

topic: Sad, Sympathy, Stars, Sorrow Love, Meaningful Death

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

- William Penn

topic: Sympathy, Death, Time, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

Grief is the price we pay for love.

- Queen Elizabeth II

topic: Life, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Hurt And Pain, Hurt Pain

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Death, Grief, Endless Love, Everlasting Love

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

- William Penn

source: Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

topic: Sympathy, Death, Love Is, Inspirational Condolences, Memorial For Loved One

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye, Wherever You Are, Inspirational Condolences

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

- Thomas Campbell

topic: Prayer, Condolences, Heart, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Condolences

When you are sorrowful, look again.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

The light has gone out of my life.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Sympathy, Condolences, Loss, Sympathy Condolences, Sympathy Messages

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sympathy, Good Night, Taken, Inspirational Condolences, Inspirational Sympathy

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Sympathy, Grief, Sadness, Inspirational Condolences, Headstone

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Death, Pain, Grief, Joy And Grief, Inspirational Bereavement

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

- Walter Scott

topic: Death, Sleep, Loss, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

topic: Sympathy, Broken Heart, Pain, Inspirational Condolences, Death Of A Friend